India v West Indies | 3rd ODI | Kanpur | 27/11/2013

[Tridibans_16]

All set for the decider in the 3 match series. India, though start as the favourites, have some issues with the middle order.
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Being a day game, Green park in Kanpur may help the seamers a bit early on. Win the toss and field first for me as both the teams have won chasing in this series.

 

[Tridibans_16]

India to bowl first. We already know the result now

 

[Extreme Pace]

India to bowl first. We already know the result now

Kohli
Batting First 38.87
Batting Second 65.54

 

[Electron]

Shami seems to be getting quicker every game. Bowling 143-145 kph here.

 

[ST1998]

Mohit Sharma has proved to be a trundler till now. Feasting on minnows is all well and good but he gotta do well against better opposition otherwise he'll only remain a CSKite.

 

[prayas]

Suresh Raina's birthday today.

 

[Electron]

Mohit Sharma has proved to be a trundler till now. Feasting on minnows is all well and good but he gotta do well against better opposition otherwise he'll only remain a CSKite.

Mohit Sharma has no swing, no pace, no bounce.. nothing. If he played the Australia series, he would have been worse than Ishant Sharma.

 

[Sandeep]

No grace whatsoever in Windies' batting. Big letdown after watching Aussie-India series where batting was at a different level!

 

[prayas]

Mohit Sharma has no swing, no pace, no bounce.. nothing. If he played the Australia series, he would have been worse than Ishant Sharma.

But he has srini mama hand on his head with

 

[prayas]

No grace whatsoever in Windies' batting. Big letdown after watching Aussie-India series where batting was at a different level!

Is our bowling improved or WI no were near that or suddenly pitches turn good from flat track

 

[Sandeep]

Is our bowling improved or WI no were near that or suddenly pitches turn good from flat track

All thanks to the inept graceless batting of West Indies..

 

[ST1998]

Kohli drops a sitter in slips and that too of Samuels.

 

[Varun]

Kohli has dropped so many catches lately it's not funny.

 

[ST1998]

Lets safely assume that he is not a slip fielder by any stretch of imagination.

 

[Sandeep]

Looks like our team is taking this match for granted; these fielding lapses will surely come back and bite

 

[ST1998]

So that dropped catch didn't prove too costly then, Samuels snared beautifully by Ashwin.

 

[Sandeep]

Ashwin can bowl these beauties out of nowhere! Just needs to be more consistent..

 

[Varun]

Ashwin can bowl these beauties out of nowhere! Just needs to be more consistent..

His bowling is the raffle draw. He'll try 60 different balls throughout his entire ODI spell, and one of them is bound to be good.

 

[ST1998]

Bravo Sr throws it, yet again.

People point at Sammy for being useless for WI but what about Bravo Sr? Has to be most careless cricketer in current WI setup.

 

[ST1998]

WI should be looking at a score in excess of 260.

 

[ST1998]

Shami being tonked by Sammy, just like in the last game.

 

[ST1998]

Sammy is such an underrated cricketer, would be very handy for WI in the next WC.

 

[ST1998]

Mohit Sharma getting badly exposed.

 

[ST1998]

India gets to chase 264 to win the series.

 

[Warrior868]

Bravo Sr throws it, yet again.

People point at Sammy for being useless for WI but what about Bravo Sr? Has to be most careless cricketer in current WI setup.

Correct.

 

[ST1998]

Correct.

And to think he is leading WI as well for what more than 6 months now, makes his carelessness all the more unfathomable.

Whenever I've closely observed his leadership he is always found wanting, be it his field placements, be it the bowling changes he makes at crucial junctures. His bowling is toothless at best and batting that rivals Afridi in carelessness, his fielding though is quite good from whatever I've seen of him.

What good is he then for WI? Just for his good fielding?

 

[Ims1]

263 is a decent score .

 

[Sandeep]

Complete the ton,

 

[Justcrazy]

India will win this easy

 

[Justcrazy]

WI have no chance , with India chasing here.

 

[battler]

Nohit :

 

[ST1998]

So Rohit fails again.

Law of averages catching up with him. In any case its better to fail here than in SA.

 

[Justcrazy]

Now Run Machine will enter ........ Beware

 

[ST1998]

I've a feeling that Kohli would fail today.

 

[Robbie]

Rohit sharma reminded me of 2012 on that.

 

[battler]

Another century for Vira.Yawn

 

[Justcrazy]

29 / 1 after 5

 

[Xoib]

So Rohit fails again.

Law of averages catching up with him. In any case its better to fail here than in SA.

can be forgiven for couple of low scores has been a monster last few months.

 

[Xoib]

its sad Ravi does not have the stamina for test matches one of the few bowlers in the world who can do well on most tracks

 

[Justcrazy]

Dhawan is in awesome form...

 

[Justcrazy]

:4

looking good.

 

[Robbie]

Kohli and dhawan > kohli and rohit

 

[Justcrazy]

WI need quick wickets to put any kind of pressure here.

 

[Justcrazy]

India require another 210 runs with 9 wickets and 42.0 overs remaining

 

[Robbie]

Damn you dhawan! You are not makin me miss sehwag here.

 

[battler]

Vira out!!
No hundred now

 

[Sandeep]

Now this will get interesting.. Rare failure for

 

[Justcrazy]

Its looking very easy for India now .

 

[Justcrazy]

out ?

 

[Shaan]

Blue eyes lady is out cheaply

 

[Sandeep]

Bring on Narine and get Yuvraj out of our team

 

[ST1998]

As I said, Kohli fails today.

 

[Justcrazy]

required rate is less than 5 now.

 

[Sandeep]

Blue eyes lady is out cheaply

Kohli?

 

[ST1998]

its sad Ravi does not have the stamina for test matches one of the few bowlers in the world who can do well on most tracks

He is amongst wickets, yet again.

I think he is way too fat for a fast bowler.

 

[Robbie]

Yuvraj "kark rogi"singh

 

[ST1998]

It was all too evident from Kohli's innings of today. He was playing too much in the air, something he hardly ever does, at least early on in his innings.

 

[Justcrazy]

Spin on here

 

[ST1998]

It is going to be a tricky score to chase, thats for sure. Narine could pose a few problems on this pitch.

 

[Justcrazy]

India require another 200 runs with 8 wickets and 40.0 overs remaining

 

[Justcrazy]

:4

 

[JibranAnsari]

This pair will take india home.

 

[Robbie]

Dhawan looking impatient.

 

[Justcrazy]

77 / 2 after 13

 

[Robbie]

Dhawan eating the laddoos

 

[Justcrazy]

India require another 180 runs with 8 wickets and 35.0 overs remaining

 

[ST1998]

Yuvraj is absolutely clueless against Narine.

 

[ST1998]

Now he proves me wrong by hitting 6 runs of 2 balls off Narine.

 

[OZGOD]

Who is this bloke commentating that has a high pitched excited voice and sounds like he's getting his nuts chopped off? Is that Sidhu?

 

[Swaraj!!]

Some of the comments do not make sense:

"Good to see that both batsmen are playing Narine cautiously. The need of the hour is to build a good partnership and not allow spinners to dominate."

I mean how does he relate the 1st statement to the 2nd.

 

[Mamoon]

Samuels' pathetic knock is going to cost WI this game.

Regarding Kohli's dropped catches, he's an ordinary fielder compared to the likes of Raina, Jadeja and Sharma. You can't be good at everything

 

[Robbie]

50 for dhawan.

 

[Mamoon]

Dhawan is due a big one.

 

[Swaraj!!]

Samuels' pathetic knock is going to cost WI this game.

Regarding Kohli's dropped catches, he's an ordinary fielder compared to the likes of Raina, Jadeja and Sharma. You can't be good at everything

He is mostly a good outfield guy ... some people are not suitable for close in positions.

One name comes to mind is Mohammed Kaif. He was India's Jonty Rhodes at one time but absolutely hopeless in the slips. For starters he would take a short leap everytime the ball reached the batsmen which would leave him nowhere if the ball took a nick and came low to the slips.

Fielding positions also should be highly specialized.

 

[Justcrazy]

partnership 34 runs here

 

[Robbie]

Koi siddhu ko chup kara do.

 

[Nuekboi]

Who is this commie. Everything he says sounds like a goddamn inspiration speech. Its so annoying

 

[Mamoon]

He is mostly a good outfield guy ... some people are not suitable for close in positions.

One name comes to mind is Mohammed Kaif. He was India's Jonty Rhodes at one time but absolutely hopeless in the slips. For starters he would take a short leap everytime the ball reached the batsmen which would leave him nowhere if the ball took a nick and came low to the slips.

Fielding positions also should be highly specialized.

He has dropped a couple of sitters on the ropes as well.

He isn't a bad fielder but not even close to India's best fielders (Raina, Jadeja and Sharma).

He is okay but mediocre in comparison to them.

 

[Justcrazy]

India on top here , WI should have got 300 at least to challenge India

 

[ST1998]

Regarding Kohli's dropped catches, he's an ordinary fielder compared to the likes of Raina, Jadeja and Sharma. You can't be good at everything

Kohli is normally a very safe fielder except for slips, has regularly dropped many catches in slips in all forms of the game. Really surprising that Indian think tank hasn't yet noticed it.